Hannah M. Pingree

Her campaign website says she would double the homestead exemption, expand the Property Tax Fairness Credit and let towns tax second homes owned by non-residents at higher rates.⁵

1. Eliminate property taxes on primary homes
2. Cap yearly increases or expand homeowner exemptions
3. No new state caps or exemptions; leave property taxes to local governments

Her campaign website says she would build on Maine's new millionaire's tax by starting a process to look at more ways to make the state's tax system more progressive so those at the top pay what it calls their fair share.⁵

Her campaign website says she would create a state-backed public health insurance option that people could choose and businesses could offer, without replacing existing coverage.^5,6

1. One government plan for everyone (Medicare for All)
2. Add a government plan that anyone can choose to buy
3. Keep the current mix of private and public coverage, including the ACA
4. Fewer federal insurance rules and more private plan choices, with aid paid to individuals

Her campaign website says she would increase funding for the Child Care Affordability Program so every income-eligible family can get help, and sustain and grow wage supplements for child care workers.⁵

1. Make child care free, or cap what families pay at a set share of income (such as 7%), paid for with new public funding
2. Expand help for lower- and middle-income families through grants and tax credits
3. Keep current child care funding and tax credits
4. Lower costs mainly by easing rules on providers, not with new federal spending

Her campaign website says she would streamline SNAP enrollment so eligible Mainers do not lose access, and ensure state funding for free school meals.⁵

Her campaign website says that as Speaker she led the Legislature's passage of one of the nation's first marriage equality laws.⁷

Her campaign website says she would invest $100 million a year in housing, set a 90-day limit for most state housing permits and support local zoning changes that allow more density, including small multi-unit buildings and accessory dwelling units built by right.⁸

Her campaign website says she would fully carry out the Home for Good program, which houses chronically homeless people with support services, and end veteran homelessness in her first year in office.⁸

Her campaign website says she would permanently fund Maine's free community college program and work toward tuition-free access to the first two years at Maine's public universities for middle- and low-income students.^8,9

Her campaign website says Maine must enact a moratorium on new data centers until it can ensure they pay their own way up front, benefit host communities and do not harm the environment or the health of their neighbors.¹⁰

1. Encourage new data centers with tax breaks and faster approvals
2. Require data centers to pay the full cost of the power plants and lines they need
3. Pause or limit new data centers

Her campaign website says she would deliver 100% clean energy by 2040, using regular competitive auctions for local solar, wind and energy storage.¹⁰

Her campaign website says she supports full tribal sovereignty, believes the Wabanaki Nations deserve the same rights as other federally recognized tribes and would work to pass legislation within her first 100 days.⁷

1. Expand tribal governments' authority, including over crimes by non-Native people on tribal lands
2. Keep the current division of authority
3. Give states more authority over crimes, taxes and regulation on tribal lands

Her campaign website says she would protect and expand the collective bargaining rights of educators and school staff.⁹

Her campaign website says that early in her career she introduced legislation to ensure reproductive access and defend abortion as a human right.⁷

Her campaign website says she cosponsored early ranked-choice voting legislation in Maine.⁷